Jenn Cole is concurrently on the faculty in the Graduate School of Sustainability at Harvard Extension, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Previously, Dr. Cole was on the faculty at Harvard University in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and served as Director of Environmental Studies at Northeastern University. She has also taught at Tufts University. Dr. Cole has over 40 publications in the fields of energy, wetlands, and agriculture, and has written books on natural disasters. She holds a Ph.D. in earth sciences from Syracuse University. She is an elected member of the Geological Society of America’s Geoscience in Education Committee as well as their Geology in Public Policy Committee and the GeoHeritage Panel. She also has a career in the environmental consulting field, serving as expert witness in wetlands cases, and representing town conservation commissions on river and wetland protection act cases. She was Senior Hydrologist at Weston and Sampson Engineers, Inc., is principal at her own private consulting firm, Rivers Consulting. She is a Conservation Commissioner in the Town of Otis, MA. Dr. Cole has given many invited talks, including the US Environmental Protection Agency and The Weston Observatory. She represented Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the White House on two occasions.